Kyiv Post

This newspaper, founded in 1995, is Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper. It took sides with the pro-Western demonstrators during the Orange Revolution in 2004, and also supported the demonstrators on Maidan in 2013/2014. Although it has supported politicians like Julia Tymoshenko and Petro Poroshenko in the past, it aims to be neutral. Its thorough investigative reporting has repeatedly uncovered corrupt links between politics, business and mafia-like structures. On 8 November 2021, the Kyiv Post temporarily ceased publication and its employees were made redundant. Three weeks earlier, the newspaper's owner, Odessa-based property developer Adnan Kivan, had announced that he was planning to expand the Kyiv Post and establish a Ukrainian-language media company under the same brand. The employees proposed that Kivan sell the newspaper or transfer the Kyiv Post brand to the editorial team, but he refused. Many journalists then left the Kyiv Post and founded the Kyiv Independent. The Kyiv Post made its online comeback in December 2021, albeit with a new editorial team.